Does Telegram need phone number?
Maybe for some users Discord would be more straightforward, because it does not need phone number. It provides text based and optionally voice chat. Recently they added video-chats too. Discord runs fine in current browsers.

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Does Telegram need phone number?
Maybe for some users Discord would be more straightforward, because it does not need phone number. It provides text based and optionally voice chat. Recently they added video-chats too. Discord runs fine in current browsers.

In telegram you need a phone number, but this is not shown in the group or to the other users, telegram is not like whats app